B-222375, APR 8, 1986, 86-1 CPD 349
Highlights
CONTRACTS - PROTESTS - GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE PROCEDURES - TIMELINESS OF PROTEST - SOLICITATION IMPROPRIETIES - APPARENT PRIOR TO CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF QUOTATIONS DIGEST: PROTEST THAT SPECIFICATIONS ARE RESTRICTIVE IS UNTIMELY WHEN FILED AFTER CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF QUOTATIONS. THE PROTEST IS DISMISSED. CMC ALLEGES THAT THE SPECIFICATIONS ARE UNDULY RESTRICTIVE BECAUSE THEY ONLY REQUESTED A QUOTE ON GENERAL ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT. WAS FILED HERE AFTER IT WAS NOTIFIED OF THE AWARD TO GENERAL ELECTRIC. ITS PROTEST IS DISMISSED.
B-222375, APR 8, 1986, 86-1 CPD 349
CONTRACTS - PROTESTS - GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE PROCEDURES - TIMELINESS OF PROTEST - SOLICITATION IMPROPRIETIES - APPARENT PRIOR TO CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF QUOTATIONS DIGEST: PROTEST THAT SPECIFICATIONS ARE RESTRICTIVE IS UNTIMELY WHEN FILED AFTER CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF QUOTATIONS.
CALIFORNIA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS:
CALIFORNIA MOBILE COMMUNICATIONS (CMC) PROTESTS THE AWARD OF REQUEST FOR QUOTATIONS (RFQ) NO. M00681-86-Q-0035, ISSUED BY THE UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS, CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA, FOR CERTAIN GENERAL ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT.
THE PROTEST IS DISMISSED.
CMC ALLEGES THAT THE SPECIFICATIONS ARE UNDULY RESTRICTIVE BECAUSE THEY ONLY REQUESTED A QUOTE ON GENERAL ELECTRIC EQUIPMENT, THEREBY PRE SELECTING GENERAL ELECTRIC FOR THE CONTRACT AWARD. CMC'S PROTEST, HOWEVER, WAS FILED HERE AFTER IT WAS NOTIFIED OF THE AWARD TO GENERAL ELECTRIC. OUR BID PROTEST REGULATIONS, 4 C.F.R. SEC. 21.2(A)(1) (1985), REQUIRE THAT PROTESTS BASED UPON ALLEGED IMPROPRIETIES APPARENT ON THE FACE OF THE SOLICITATION, SUCH AS RESTRICTIVE SPECIFICATIONS, BE FILED PRIOR TO THE INITIAL CLOSING DATE FOR RECEIPT OF QUOTATIONS. SECURITY ENGINEERED MACHINERY, B-220557, SEPT. 27, 1985, 85-2 CPD PARA. 353.
SINCE CMC DID NOT PROTEST THE SOLICITATION PRIOR TO CLOSING, ITS PROTEST IS DISMISSED.